Spain summons Iran envoy over protest crackdown
Spain on Tuesday summoned Iran’s ambassador to Madrid to protest a crackdown on demonstrations, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said, according to AFP.
"The right of Iranian men and women to peaceful protest, their freedom of expression, must be respected," Albares told Catalunya Radio, adding that what he described as arbitrary arrests must stop.
"Iran must return to the dialogue tables and to the negotiating tables," he said, adding that Spain would put special emphasis on the rights of women.
